ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,503, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Citigroup Global Markets Inc. (New York).

"Management of queries in electronic mail messages" was invented by Deepesh Sen (Princeton, N.J.), Itzel Herrera (Nutley, N.J.), Sumantha Raghurama Shetty (Pune, India), Prashant Rajendrakumar Shah (Pune, India) and Steve Morgan (Cliffside Park, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented herein are systems and methods for handling email messages. An application may identify, via the user interface, one or more properties defining a distribution list to assign a user of the client device. The application may transmit, to the server, the one or more ...